Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

University of Essex
Postgraduate MA Full-time 12 Months Teaching

About this course

This is a Masters course that can take you into employment anywhere in the world. If you are enthusiastic about teaching English as a foreign or second language, then our course offers you vocationally-relevant, research-led training of the highest quality, taught by academics known for their teaching excellence. You explore teaching methods and the description of English used in the investigation of language learning and teaching, and study additional topics according to your needs. These might include:

  • How second language learners acquire vocabulary, and how vocabulary can be taught

  • Computer-assisted language-learning

  • Literature and language-learning

  • Materials design and evaluation

  • Teaching Writing in EFL/ESL

    You also gain hands-on teaching experience through our Teaching Practice I and Teaching Practice II modules.

    Whether you have no prior teaching experience or are already an English language teacher, this course can be adapted to suit you. If you have little or no previous teaching experience, you receive ‘hands on’ teaching practice throughout the course via TEFL, while if you already have more than two year’s full-time teaching experience, you can undertake specialist study through TESOL instead.

  • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MA

    Location: Colchester

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MA

    Location: Colchester

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2317 Teachers of English as a foreign language
    2319 Teaching professionals
    2311 Higher education teaching professionals
    2312 Further education teaching professionals
    2324 Early education and childcare services managers
    3574 Other vocational and industrial trainers

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Colchester
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Teaching